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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Chook Developments

I've been spending a lot of my time recently walking to and from our chook/lamb paddock. Luckily it is only through the yard - but there have been lots of things to keep an eye on.

Firstly we have got a new hen-house for our girls. It's second-hand but we've got good value for money because it is solid and well designed. It came from the same retiring breeder we got some of our hens from, so we know that it is going to do the job.

It was rather a mission to move, especially as we had gales blowing and a hi-ab driver who cut his head on another project. We had to remove the skids while it was being held up by the hi-ab but it sat well on the trailer.

When we got it home dear H had the very clever idea of using two loaders to slowly lower it in place.

Yeah! H, K and I have been busy setting up our chooks' new home and now that they have moved in we're all very happy!

Now - onto the next development. See this wee thing... it is our black Orpington chick that came out on Sunday.

We had hoped to have some siblings for him/her but the eggs didn't produce what we had hoped. The mum is super-devoted and we do have a thing about single child families on this farm. :-)

It just might take a while to fill our new hen-house.

In case you're wondering the lambs and hens don't seem to bother each other - unless the lambs are trying to get into the hen-house and I have to herd two mobs of animals!

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